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Tech Xplore / SoftBank lifts OpenAI stake to 11% with $41bln investment

Japanese tech investor SoftBank said Wednesday that its stake in OpenAI is now around 11% after completing the second stage of a $41-billion investment in the maker of ChatGPT.

Dec 31, 2025 in Business
Medical Xpress / Coloradans snap up over-the-counter naloxone while hospitals offer the overdose-reversal drug to more patients

Colorado is coming closer to universal access to overdose-reversing medication as residents snap up an over-the-counter version and hospitals offer it to more patients.

Dec 31, 2025 in Medications
Medical Xpress / Statins significantly reduce mortality risk for adults with diabetes, regardless of cardiovascular risk: Study

A large cohort study found that statins significantly reduce the risk of death and major cardiovascular events in adults with type 2 diabetes, even among those with low predicted 10‐year cardiovascular risk.

Dec 29, 2025 in Cardiology
Phys.org / Can you 'live long and prosper' by learning economics from Star Trek? Or is that 'highly illogical?'

It might seem worlds away from the Earth we know. But can "Star Trek" teach us anything about the economics of our own society?

Dec 29, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / West Coast levee failures show growing risks from America's aging flood defenses

In recent weeks, powerful atmospheric river storms have swept across Washington, Oregon and California, unloading enormous amounts of rain. As rivers surged, they overtopped or breached multiple levees—those long, often ...

Dec 30, 2025 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Adenotonsillectomy improves growth in children with mild sleep-disordered breathing

For children with mild sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), adenotonsillectomy improves growth and sleep-related outcomes, according to a study published online in Scientific Reports.

Dec 31, 2025 in Surgery
Tech Xplore / New AI-based technology offers real-time electric vehicle state estimation for safer driving

A research team led by Professor Kanghyun Nam from the Department of Robotics and Mechanical Engineering at DGIST has developed a physical AI-based vehicle state estimation technology that accurately estimates the driving ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Engineering
Medical Xpress / Visiting abroad in the coming year? Antibiotics becoming less effective against traveler's diarrhea, study warns

Planning some international travel as one of your New Year's resolutions?

Dec 30, 2025 in Medications
Tech Xplore / Southern California's unlikely AI mecca is this very industrial city

Five miles south of downtown Los Angeles, a single industrial block in Vernon is drawing as much electricity as a small town.

Dec 31, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / Early tests rule out lab as cause of Spain swine fever outbreak

Preliminary analysis rules out a lab leak as the cause of an African swine fever outbreak that has rocked Spain's lucrative pork industry, but further tests are needed, authorities said Tuesday.

Dec 30, 2025 in Biology
Tech Xplore / The origami wheel that could explore lunar caves

Beneath the moon's cratered surface lie networks of lava tubes and deep pits, natural caves that could shelter future lunar bases from cosmic radiation and wild temperature swings. These underground structures represent some ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / They graduated from Stanford: Due to AI, they can't find a job

A Stanford software engineering degree used to be a golden ticket. Artificial intelligence has devalued it to bronze, recent graduates say.

Dec 29, 2025 in Business